The Wedding Fact Sheet

It’s only the first quarter of the year and we’re already seeing a lot of engagements and weddings from celebrity couples.

What more ordinary mortals like you and me? Oh well, I got married in January this year myself! What is it with 2009, and what luck does it hold for us?

After the Harrison Ford-Calista Flockhart hush-hush engagement, here’s a short list of famous people who tied the knot and who’s set to walk down the aisle soon. Pardon me, am star-struck!

Christina Ricci and Owen Benjamin, both actors. She’s 5′1″ and he’s 6′6″, but that hasn’t kept them from playing perfect music together. We just hope they’ll not have their own Addams Family in the works, or else….

Danica McKellar, who played Winnie Cooper in The Wonder Years, married her long time beau, musician Mike Verta, in an ocean-side ceremony in La Jolla, California. She’s a brilliant mathematician, but one plus one isn’t really hard to add up, this case

Statuesque singer Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams of the country rock band The Cardinals got hitched in a simple courthouse ceremony, after an on-and-off relationship. He’s 34 and she’s 24.

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This is such a good piece of news: Harrison Ford (of ‘Indiana Jones’ fame) and Calista Flockhart (formerly of ‘Ally McBeal’) are now engaged. The two have been together for more than seven years. They certainly disprove the so-called “seven-year itch,” viewed by some as a couple growing apart after seven years of being together.

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Before the Wedding Proper, wedding proposals are the most-awaited. It seems the rule of thumb for most couples is: the more romantic, the better. It should be something couples and their family or friends will remember for long. And if dramatic enough, it can even land you a spot in the newspapers!

One of the proposals that caught my eye recently was the case of this young man who put the engagement ring he intended to give his girlfriend in a cup of Wendy’s Frosty. Everything wen’t awry when she ended up swallowing the ring without knowing it! The picture, and full story, in this American girl’s blog

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